Projecting is hard...
Look, I get it. The future is unknowable. The whole Jeff Goldblum drop of water on the back of the hand thing in Jurassic Park. But the future isn't the present. The assumption that things will look much like they do today assumes that there is no future. It assumes stasis. And the NFL doesn't do stasis.
That was at the forefront of the annual three-year outlook power rankings from ESPN's trio of John Clayton, Louis Riddick and Mike Sando (ESPN insider sub required because boo).
First, the meat.